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Aug 12, Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner remove foundation shrubs that have overtaken the front of her treedelimbing.barIBE to This Ol. Nov 30, If you are like me, digging up bushes and trees SUCKS.

And never gets all of the roots up, unless you dig a monster hole. So here is a MUCH better way, and. 1 Use bypass loppers to cut away smaller branches around outer portion of shrub.

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2 Cut through thick branches deep inside of the shrub with a chainsaw. 3 Dig around base of shrub with pointed shovel. 4 Cut through roots at base of stump with a garden mattock. 5 Pull stump from treedelimbing.bar: Roger Cook.

Start by digging around the base of the shrub and cutting all the roots you can get at.

Then lay scraps of plywood on each side of the shrub. Set a jack stand or concrete blocks on one side and set up your jack on the other. Lay a beam across them and tie the root to the beam with a treedelimbing.barted Reading Time: 1 min. Jun 01, An easy solution to remove the dirt and hence lightening the shrub or bush is to hit the soil with a garden hose or even a power washer.

If you hit the soil with some water pressure the dirt will simply wash right away. You’ll be left with only the shrub or bush which can be cut up, burned, or moved to curb for treedelimbing.barted Reading Time: 5 mins.